{
"cells": [
{
"cell_type": "code",
"execution_count": 184,
"metadata": {},
"outputs": [],
"source": [
"# imported modules\n",
"import math"
]
},
{
"cell_type": "markdown",
"metadata": {},
"source": [
"## Exercise 1:"
]
},
{
"cell_type": "code",
"execution_count": 185,
"metadata": {},
"outputs": [],
"source": [
"treated = [18, 43, 28, 50, 16, 32, 13, 35, 38, 33, 6, 7]\n",
"untreated = [40, 54, 26, 63, 21, 37, 39, 23, 48, 58, 28, 39, 42]"
]
},
{
"cell_type": "markdown",
"metadata": {},
"source": [
"## Exercise 2:"
]
},
{
"cell_type": "code",
"execution_count": 28,
"metadata": {},
"outputs": [
{
"name": "stdout",
"output_type": "stream",
"text": [
   "The total number of treated sheep is: 12\n",
   "The total number of untreated sheep is: 13\n"
]
}
],
"source": [
"print('The total number of treated sheep is: {0}'.format(len(treated)))\n",
"print('The total number of untreated sheep is: {0}'.format(len(untreated)))"
]
},
{
"cell_type": "markdown",
"metadata": {},
"source": [
"## Exercise 3:"
]
},
{
"cell_type": "code",
"execution_count": 8,
"metadata": {},
"outputs": [],
"source": [
"trt_sorted = sorted(treated.copy())\n",
"untrt_sorted = sorted(untreated.copy())"
]
},
{
"cell_type": "markdown",
"metadata": {},
"source": [
"## Exercise 4:"
]
},
{
"cell_type": "code",
"execution_count": 12,
"metadata": {},
"outputs": [],
"source": [
"# here, we use sorted() method, with reverse as True to sort in descending\n",
"# order. Next, the top n elements, specified by num is returned\n",
"def get_nlargest(arr, num=3):\n",
" return sorted(arr.copy(), reverse=True)[:num]"
]
},
{
"cell_type": "code",
"execution_count": 13,
"metadata": {},
"outputs": [
{
"name": "stdout",
"output_type": "stream",
"text": [
   "[50, 43, 38, 35]\n"
]
}
],
"source": [
"print(get_nlargest(treated, 4))"
]
},
{
"cell_type": "code",
"execution_count": 14,
"metadata": {},
"outputs": [
{
"name": "stdout",
"output_type": "stream",
"text": [
   "[63, 58, 54]\n"
]
}
],
"source": [
"print(get_nlargest(untreated))"
]

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